Curiosity of Computer Game that offers date with Dickens: The Times, 13 Feb 2023

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Description

Leon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Dickens Letters Project, held a hackathon event in London for coders and digital humanists, with the aim of using his database of Dickens’s correspondence as the basis for a game, to enhance research impact and engagement. The participants developed a prototype, the aim of which was for the player to obtain an invitation to dinner with Dickens. Leon hopes to use this fledgling idea to create a fully-developed visual interface, through which the general public would interact with a virtual Dickens, so as draw them into a closer relationship with the author and his world.

Period13 Feb 2023

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Media contributions

  • TitleCuriosity of Computer Game that offers date with Dickens
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletThe Times
    Media typePrint
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date13/02/2023
    DescriptionLeon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Dickens Letters Project, held a hackathon event in London for coders and digital humanists, with the aim of using his database of Dickens’s correspondence as the basis for a game, to enhance research impact and engagement. The participants developed a prototype, the aim of which was for the player to obtain an invitation to dinner with Dickens. Leon hopes to use this fledgling idea to create a fully-developed visual interface, through which the general public would interact with a virtual Dickens, so as draw them into a closer relationship with the author and his world.
    URLhttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pick-your-wicks-to-wrangle-dinner-invite-with-charles-dickens-in-video-game-nzmlb2mzm
    PersonsLeon Litvack

Keywords

  • Dickens
  • Letters
  • artificial intelligence